Best of 2013

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2013. 195 posts.

Security & Privacy
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Advanced cryptographic ratcheting

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been working on improving our encrypted asynchronous chat protocol for TextSecure. The TextSecure protocol was originally a derivative of OTR, with minor changes to accommodate it for transports with constraints like SMS or Push. Some of the recent changes we’ve ...